Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 49, Issue 8 , Pages 794-809, August 2010

Autism Spectrum Disorders and Epigenetics

  • Daria Grafodatskaya, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Brian Chung, M.B.B.S.

      Affiliations

    • Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Peter Szatmari, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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  • Rosanna Weksberg, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to Dr. Rosanna Weksberg, Division of Clinical and Metabolic Genetics, The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5G 1X8

Accepted 10 May 2010. published online 05 July 2010.

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 This article is discussed in an editorial by Drs. James J. Hudziak and Stephen V. Faraone on page 729.

 Funding for this work was provided by the Canadian Institute of Heath Research.

 This is one of several articles published in the August and September issues of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry that explores the intersection of genetics and mental health disorders in children and adolescents. The editors invite the reader to investigate the additional articles on this burgeoning area of developmental psychopathology.

 The authors thank Cheryl Cytrynbaum, Cheryl Shuman, Sanaa Choufani, and Darci Butcher for their helpful suggestions regarding the manuscript, and Khadine Wiltshire and Deborah Taylor for their technical help. Ms. Cytrynbaum, Ms. Shuman, Ms. Wiltshire, Ms. Taylor, and Drs. Choufani and Butcher are with the Hospital for Sick Children.

 Disclosure: Dr. Grafodatskaya is funded by a post-doctoral fellowship from the Autism Research Training Program. Drs. Chung, Weksberg, and Szatmari report no biomedical interests or potential conflicts of interest.

PII: S0890-8567(10)00391-6

doi:10.1016/j.jaac.2010.05.005

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 49, Issue 8 , Pages 794-809, August 2010